Kerry Anderson

Background

About Kerry Anderson

Kerry Anderson is a fire research scientist (emeritus) with the Canadian Forest Service. Dr. Anderson received his B.Sc. in 1985, M.Sc. in 1991 and Ph.D in 2009 at the University of Alberta. His Ph.D. thesis entitled "A Multi-scale Approach to Fire-growth Modelling" examined predicting forest fire growth over a range of scales from hourly to seasonally.His M.Sc. thesis entitled "Models to Predict Lightning Occurrence and Prediction over Alberta" examined the ability to forecast lightning using upper air soundings. Dr. Anderson is actively involved in research to predict smoke forecasting, fire weather and fire behaviour. Through this research, Anderson has and continues to develop models to assist fire management agencies in daily operational planning by predicting the potential impact of fires on the landscape. These models provide a means to determine effective fire suppression response strategies to mitigate the threat. In turn, the goals are to help protect the public, communities, and forests; to promote the health of the forest ecosystem; to minimize fire suppression expenditures.Dr. Anderson retired from this position in 2017 but continues to work emeritus status for Natural Resources Canada and is available for related consulting projects.